Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre

’Heartweary and soul-withered, you come home after years of voluntary banishment: you make a new acquaintance—how or where no matter: you find in this stranger much of the good and bright qualities which you have sought for twenty years, and never before encountered; and they are all fresh, healthy, without soil and without taint. Such society revives, regenerates: you feel better days come back—higher wishes, purer feelings; you desire to recommence your life, and to spend what remains to you of days in a way more worthy of an immortal being. To attain this end, are you justified in overleaping an obstacle of custom—a mere conventional impediment which neither your conscience sanctifies nor your judgment approves?’

And you are not angry with me? I don't know. I'll have to think about it.

I knew you'd do me good, the first time I met you. I knew I wouldn't mind being in your debt.

JANE EYRE (2011) dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga

You have saved my life. Don’t walk past me as if we were stangers.

“If I dared, I’d touch you, to see if you are substance or shadow, you elf!—but I’d as soon offer to take hold of a blue ignis fatuus light in a marsh.”

Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre

dir. Cary Fukunaga